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"\"&lt;p&gt;&lt;div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1000024338 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'&gt;&lt;figure class='gallery-item'&gt;\\n\\t\\t\\t&lt;div class='gallery-icon '&gt;\\n\\t\\t\\t\\t&lt;a href='http:\\/\\/snowboarding.transworld.net\\/news\\/backcountry-basics\\/attachment\\/SN0207_DOW01\\/'&gt;\\/snow\\/content\\/images\\/v20n7\\/m\\/SN0207_DOW01.jpg&lt;\\/a&gt;\\n\\t\\t\\t&lt;\\/div&gt;&lt;\\/figure&gt;\\n\\t\\t&lt;\\/div&gt;\\n&lt;BR&gt;The Secret Backcountry Life Of Jeremy Jones &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;I met Jeremy Jones while I was living in Utah in the mid 90s. He and his buddy JP Walker were always out building jumps in the backcountry behind Brighton resort without a filmer or photographer-just having fun.&lt;BR&gt;Today, Jeremy is more known for his rail riding in the city and filming huge technical jumps with MDP. This year, Jeremy and I hooked up on a pretty sick day in Tahoe. I took him out to some of my favorite backcountry spots and asked him a few questions.-Dave Downing&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;D. Downing: If you only had one day left in your life to snowboard-would you slide rails in Salt Lake or go ride powder?&lt;BR&gt;J. Jones: I&amp;#8217;d go heli boarding with my friends, for sure!  Hitting rails is how I&amp;#8217;ve contributed to the progression of this sport, and that&amp;#8217;s what I do when I&amp;#8217;m filming my video part &amp;#8230;  but the best sensation is riding powder. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;I used to see you and JP building jumps in the backcountry for fun. Has your backcountry experience changed?&lt;BR&gt;Back then we were just practicing and learning. Now we&amp;#8217;re more experienced and serious. The jumps are way bigger and the decisions more calculated. It&amp;#8217;s not simply building a small kicker and chucking off it like the old days. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Everybody sees you hitting powder kickers and doing technical tricks in your movie parts-is there another side of the backcountry experience we don&amp;#8217;t see?&lt;BR&gt;Yeah, just being out there with my crew without the crowds. Being able to take a run on an open powder field with nobody around, hitting a little drop, cracking a little ollie of a roller-that&amp;#8217;s the stuff we don&amp;#8217;t film, and it&amp;#8217;s the best ever. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Where&amp;#8217;s your favorite place to ride early season before filming starts.&lt;BR&gt;         Going out and hiking around Brighton-all the little stash runs that we know about, the cliffs and jumps we&amp;#8217;ve hit for years.  That&amp;#8217;s when you get your stoke and board control back. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;What have you done to prepare yourself for the backcountry?&lt;BR&gt;I&amp;#8217;ve taken CPR and avalanche transceiver classes. I check the avalanche-conditions reports every day.  I&amp;#8217;ve read up on how to survive if you&amp;#8217;re stuck out there for a night or two. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Now that you have a family, do you consider the risks of being in the backcountry?&lt;BR&gt;Yeah, I&amp;#8217;m not really worried about risking getting hurt snowboarding-it&amp;#8217;s the avalanches. I need to survive and come home to my family in one piece, you know? &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Your pro model with Burton is a 156 and you&amp;#8217;re six feet tall and pretty big. What&amp;#8217;s up with that?&lt;BR&gt;Well, I stepped it up (laughs)-I have a Burton 159 coming out too. It&amp;#8217;s way more stable for landing and going fast in powder. It totally helps and gives you more confidence having a little bigger board in the backcountry. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;You live in Utah, which has a pretty scary avalanche history. What do you do if you really want to ride, but the avy conditions are super sketchy?&lt;BR&gt;I don&amp;#8217;t go out-I just take runs at the ski resort.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Yes, &amp;#8220;freestyle&amp;#8221; Jeremy is known to get nasty in the backcountry. Photo: Jeff Curtes&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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